Why how now gentleman: why this is flat knaverie to take upon you another mans's name.

 William Shakespeare: Taming of the Shrew, iv, 1, 127



Wherefore let us come to CYPHARS. Their kinds are many as, Cyphars simple; Cyphars intermixt with Nulloes , or non-significant Characters; Cyphers of double Letters under one Character; Wheele-Cyphars; Kay-Cyphars; Cyphars of words; Others.

 Francis Bacon: The Advancement of Learning

THE
SECOND
CRYPTOGRAPHIC
SHAKESPEARE

A MONOGRAPH WHEREIN THE POEMS AND PLAYS ATTRIBUTED TO WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE ARE PROVEN TO CONTAIN THE ENCIPHERED NAME OF THE CONCEALED AUTHOR, FRANCIS BACON

BY PENN LEARY

THE ENLARGED SECOND EDITION

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Quotations excerpted from The Man Who Saw Through Time Copyright 1973
Loren Eiseley, reprinted with permission of Charles Scribners Sons, New York City.

A DEDICATION:

TO MY MARVELOUS AND EXCEEDINGLY DECENT,
CULTIVATED AND INDUSTRIOUS FAMILY, WITH ALL
MY LOVE: MY WIFE MARIAN, MY DAUGHTER
SHAWN, HER HUSBAND MICHAEL, MY SON BRIAN,
MY DAUGHTER ERIN, HER HUSBAND GARY
AND MY SISTER JANE.


AND HOMAGE:

TO THE AUTHOR OF THE WORKS OF
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE.

PENN LEARY

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